Alexander Fortin

I'm a Software Engineer passionate about automation and all the things as Code

My love for paleo-protocols keeps growing, after `finger a@l3x.in` you can now find all my Bluesky posts on gopher too:

gopher://gopher.l3x.in

thanks to this new proxy server I built for the purpose:

forge.l3x.in/alex/crystal...
crystalgophforge.l3x.in
2026-10-28View on Bluesky
Soon after Viktor Orbán's departure it's so uplifting to witness yet another authoritarian outsted from european politics 🎉

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic electionwww.theguardian.com
2026-10-25View on Bluesky
eMudhra's debacle made me think keeping an eye on the Certificate Transparency ledger for my domains isn't such a bad idea.

I now have a Cert Spotter daemon running as podman on my VPS, thanks to @sslmate.com

forge.l3x.in/alex/certspo...
certspotterforge.l3x.in
2026-10-22View on Bluesky

Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives
In the last past 10 years or so I've gradually tried to distance myself from various form or "enshittification", I talk here about some of the alternatives I have chosen and why I think they serve me better than the most popular ones.
2026-10-0912 min
Serverless vanity Go import server
I cooked my bespoke solution to avoid coupling my Go code with GitHub
2026-09-281 min
Cheap and easy throwaway VPN server
I travel a lot and I don't like censored internet, in this article I'm discussing the various workarounds I put in place to circumvent restrictions.
2026-09-226 min